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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: RGMike on July 01, 2009, 12:40:33 PM

Title: RIP Karl Malden
Post by: RGMike on July 01, 2009, 12:40:33 PM

"The nose" knows...

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-karl-malden,0,2148992.story

Title: Re: RIP Karl Malden
Post by: Lightnin' Rod on July 01, 2009, 01:19:10 PM

Quote from: RGMike on July 01, 2009, 12:40:33 PM

"The nose" knows...

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-karl-malden,0,2148992.story

Bummer -- the streets of SF are just that more dangerous and barren now.  RIP, Karl.

Title: Re: RIP Karl Malden
Post by: Wayback on July 01, 2009, 07:53:20 PM

Some "Streets of SF" videos, featuring lots of SF scenery:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/stew/detail?entry_id=42878

Article from SF Chronicle with photo gallery:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/01/MN8O11IQEF.DTL

Schwarzenegger flips out in a 1977 "Streets of SF" episode (47 sec's):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSCBwczZ2gY&feature=related

Title: Re: RIP Karl Malden
Post by: Tinka Cat on July 01, 2009, 09:33:37 PM

wow, 97.   I hope it was a full life. 

some of the scripts were meh, sometimes the acting was meh, but the show was great.  So many location shots made this a fun watch and the relationship b/w the fatherly Lt. Mike Stone and the young hip Inspector Steve Keller was interesting at times, although it was a cop show at heart. And let's not forget, it was "A Quinn/Martin Production"   

I just referenced the show a couple weeks ago when I was in Fort Funston.  One ep in season One had the climax in the abandoned battery out in Ft. Funston.  Mike chased the bad guy out down the Great Highway and they pulled into Ft. Funston, he chased the dude on foot down one of the battery's corridors.  You can still drive up the place where they parked, tho it's illegal I'm sure.  the battery structure is still there, of course, although the corridor has a big rusty steel door preventing any shenanigans.

"dudes!" I said to my dudes. "This is where Karl Malden parked, this is the door they ran into, and this is where he talked the crazy bad guy back from the brink!"

RIP

Title: Re: RIP Karl Malden
Post by: mshray on July 02, 2009, 12:06:30 AM

I guess he finally left home without his American Express travelers checks.

but seriously, I had no idea he was born in 1912.  97 is a lot of years.

I don't have much memory of Streets, except that it was a Quinn-Martin Production.

My indelible memory of him (other than the Amex ads) is as 4-star Gen. Omar Bradley opposite George C. Scott in Patton.  One of my all-time favorite movies.  But I'll probably have to rewatch On The Waterfront first.